We read a short short story on the origin of the word tantalize from the myth of Tantalus. After we read it, I had them write a paragraph stating how they would have dealt with Tantalus if they were Zeus. One students wrote:
“Of course, if Tantalus didn’t have snitches all around him he would not have got killed.”
That’s life in urban Phila.
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November 16, 2008 at 3:15 am
Mike
My favorite urban Philly moment was sometime in the summer of 2007. Someone walked into a bar full of people and shot and killed two of them.
None of the patrons saw a thing, they claimed to the police.